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The European Parliament held its much anticipated first reading plenary vote on the revision of Directive 86/609 (the Animal Experimentation Directive) on 5 May 2009.
MEPs voted overwhelmingly in favour of the Neil Parish report, thereby adopted a rather cautious approach: restricting animal use, but without groundbreaking progress. Click here to read Eurogroup's press release following the vote.
Positive developments resulting from the vote are that MEPs supported a number of amendments to the text
related to alternatives, education and training, inspections, transparency and review of the Directive. Unfortunately, however, some amendments were also passed which have weakened the original Commission text in relation to the authorisation of projects entailing animal testing and the phase out ban proposed on wild-caught primates.
Eurogroup and its members are currently monitoring the developments in the trialogue meetings between the Commission, Council and Parliament on the new proposal..
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